Apples Can Fight Breast Cancer

Six medical studies, published in the past year by Cornell researchers, report that apples prevent breast cancer by multiple mechanisms.

Findings

Specifically, the studies show that natural substances found in apples decrease the number of tumors, size of tumors, and tumor growth rates in animals. The more apple extract the animals were fed, the greater the reduction in cancer. The lead Cornell researcher states, “We not only observed that the treated animals had fewer tumors, but the tumors were smaller, less malignant [aggressive] and grew more slowly.”